31 Dec 2006
Major development at Wujiaochang （五角场）
Posted by: Squareface In: Shanghai Roams| Taking in; on; and to Shanghai (or China in general)
Shanghai’s Wujiaochang is being revamped! From a mere roundabout, it is being piled on with more concrete shopping malls. Friends and I have discovered this new shopping area today. There’s Walmart (!), McDonalds, Burger King (!) (very rare in Shanghai), KFC, Shanghai Book City, Haagan Daz, Pizza Hut, Paris Baguette (from Korea, apparently?), Breadtalk, cinema, etc etc, basically a shopping malls! Walmart! Cinema! We catched a movie today, The Painted Veil, which was good, and then we sneaked (or just walked stealthily) to another theatre to catch another movie, shang cheng (Hong Kong movie dubbed in Mandarin). We only watched the 2nd movie halfway though, ‘coz one of us got too frightened to watch on (sheesh). Nevertheless, it looks like we stand to gain from their unguarded cinema. And they are offering students half-price all day, everyday!
It also looks like I might not be patrionizing Da Run Fa (RT Mart, the hypermarket near my place that I frequent) that much, because the prospect of shopping at Walmart appeals to me better. This shopping area is about a 10-minute walk from my place.
How wonderful it is to have moved out from the foreign students’ dormitory!
Anyway, I look forward to spending time loitering around wujiaochang area after school, just like the old days back home with shopping malls heh.
